All Episodes

פָּרָשַׁת תְּצַוֶּה תשפ”ו – The source of Moses’ moral authority

הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת תְּרוּמָה תשפ”ו Was Shomo’s Temple popular?

פָּרָשַׁת תְּרוּמָה תשפ”ו – Stationary and Mobile

הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת שְׁקָלִים תשפ”ו – Fundraising techniques 2800 years ago

הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת מִשְׁפָּטִים תשפ”וו – Facing doom but still unable to let go of their (illegally held) Hebrew slaves

פָּרָשַׁת מִשְׁפָּטִים תשפ”ו – Saadia Gaon’s remarkable in sight into the Torah’s statement re: Kidnapping

הפטרת פרשת יתרו תשפ”ו – The Great Hall in Heaven Filled with smoke

פָּרָשַׁת יִתְרוֹ 2026 – The Chronology Problem

פָּרָשַׁת יִתְרוֹ תשפ”ו חָתָן וְחוֹתֵן

Haftarah Parshas Beshalach 2026 – Was Yael a Judge?

Parshas Beshalach: What was the nature of Moshe’s reputation among the Egyptians?

Parshas Bo: When did Moses become humble?

פָּרָשַׁת וָאֵרָא תשפ”ו – Two opposing traditions re: what language the Jews spoke in Egypt

הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת שְׁמוֹת תשפ”ו – A Glimpse into Isaiah’s Utopia

Parshas Shemos: Yaakov the Successful Parent

Parshas VaYechi: What was the “Acharis HaYamim” that Yaakov wanted to reveal to his sons?

Parshas VaYigash: Not saying dumb things that will hurt the Jewish People

Haftarah Parshas VaYigash: The vision of grafting the two trees together

Parshas VaYigash: Was Joseph actually the VICEROY, the ruler of Egypt? Or czar of the economy?

Parshas Mikeitz: Yosef, the first “Court Jew”

Parshas VaYeshev – Yaakov and Yosef “wake up,” but too late!

Parshas VaYeshev: The remarkable tale of the character-development of Joseph

Parshas VaYishlach: Why does Jacob say to Esau that he observed all 613 Mitzvos?

Parshas VaYeitzei: What is Yaakov afraid of?

Parshas Toldos: Was Yitzchak Avinu poverty-stricken (Ibn Ezra)?

הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת חַיֵּי שָׂרָה תשפ”ו Adonijah vs. Shlomo: the Background

Parshas Chayei Sarah: Why does Avrohom adjure Eliezer not to take a wife from the Bnos Knaani for Yitzchok?

Parshas VaYera: The Rashbam’s unique take on Abraham’s encounter with the Three Angels

Parshas Lech Lecha: “And he will be a wild donkey of a man…”

Parshas Noach: Noah and “the Day After”

Parshas Bereishis: The world was created for a UNITED Klal Yisroel

Parshas Ha’azinu:זְכֹר יְמוֹת עוֹלָם, אֲבָל בִּינוּ שְׁנוֹת דּוֹר וָדוֹר

Parshas VaYelech: Hester Panim

Parshas Nitzavim: Trying to match the glorious prophecy with recent Jewish history

Parshas Ki Savo: The Abarbanel v. the Netziv

פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תֵּצֵא תשפ”ה – יְפַת תֹּאַר בְּעוֹלַם הַקַּבָּלָה

פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תֵּצֵא תשפ”ה – יְפַת תֹּאַר בְּעוֹלַם הַקַּבָּלָה

Moses’ warning: אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל can easily become a קְלָלָה! Parshas RE’EH

Parshas Re’eh: Keep the booze out of the house of the fellow in recovery

Moses and the Bones of Joseph: Two different models of Jewish leadership? Parshas Eikev

Parashas Eikev: The Wild Beasts

Parshas VaEschana: Zachor or Shamor? Is the Sabbath theology or history?

פָּרָשַׁת וָאֶתְחַנָּן תשפ”ה – וְנוֹשַׁנְתֶּם

Parshas Devarim: The strange story of how the Transjordan was divided-up by Moses, not G-d

Parshas Matos 5785 What happened to the kids of the two and a half tribes while the fathers were away fighting on the other side of the Jordan River?

Parshas Matos-Masei: The War of Revenge in Midian and the War Against Hamas in Gaza

Parshas Pinchas: The Bloody Discrepancies

Bilam’s observation of הֶן עָם לְבָדָד יִשְׁכֹּן and the current phenomenon of Jews being abandoned by their supposed “allies”

Parshas Balak: Bil’am and the Current War in Gaza

Parshas Chukas: The Cedar, Hyssop, and Crimson Wool – The Three Types of Worshipers of the Golden Calf?

Parshas Korach: The Even Ezra – An EGREGIOUS example of אֵין מֻקְדָּם וּמְאֻחָר בַּתּוֹרָה !

Parshas Shelach: The Flaw in Intelligence Procedures That Resulted in the Sad Episode of the Meraglim

Parshas Behaaloschah: What is the meaning of the strange phrase :”בְּכָל בֵּיתִי נֶאֱמָן הוּא”?

Parshas Naso: The Sotah and Structurally flawed marriages

Shavuos and Yisro: Why does the story of Yisro precede מַתַּן תּוֹרָה? Hpw did Yisro create אַחְדוּת among כְּלַל יִשְׂרָאֵל?

Parshas Bamidbar: Abarbanel – The Levites too were enslaved in Egypt!

Parshas Behar-Bechukosai: King David, the Brachos in the Parsha, and Depression

Parshas Emor: May a kohen marry a promiscuous woman?

Parshas Achrei Mos-Kedoshim: Why is the Yom Kippur Ritual associated with the deaths of Nadav and Avihu?

Parshas Tazria-Metzora: Biblical Leprosy and Its Role in Promoting Sincere Social Relations

Parshas Shmini: Nadav and Avihu

Parshas Tzav (Erev Pesach) – Changing attitudes towards the Temple Sacrifices

Haftarah Parshas VaYikra: “הֶעֱבַדְתַּנִי בְּחַטֹּאותֶיךָ הוֹגַעְתַּנִי בַּעֲוֹנֹתֶיךָ

Parshas VaYikra: הַקָּרְבָּנוֹת לְעֻמַּת הַקָּרְבָּן פֶּסַח

Parshas HaChodesh: The seemingly disjuncted narrative

Parshas Pekudei- מִי הָיוּ לֵצָנֵי הַדּוֹר

Haftarah Parshas Parah- Jewish misconduct in the lands of exile

Parshas VaYakhel- No fire outside the miskan, but yes fire inside the mishkan!

Parshas Ki Sisa (Shoshana Purim): The Eigel and Purim

Parshas Tetzaveh: Was Aaron chosen for the priesthood before the episode of the Golden Calf?

Parshas Mishpatim: Creating a sacred polity is harder than creating a holy individual

Parshas Yisro: The oath Moshe swore to Yisro re: Gershom, Pt. 2

Parshas Yisro: Yisro brings Gershom, whom he has already “ruined,” hence the tense relationship

פָּרָשַׁת בְּשַׁלַּח תשפ”ה – Some Jews armed themselves to battle the Philistines when they left Egypt. Others were cowardly

Parshas Bo: Were there apostates (משומדים) already at the time of יציאת מצרים?

Parshas VaEra: Redemption without repentance?

Parshas Shmos: A Three Day Holiday?

Parshas VaYigash: Why did Joseph supply his brothers with literally all their need?

Parshas Mikeitz: Joseph the first “galus yid” in history

Parshas VaYeshev: Contrasting the sibling relationships between the 12 brothers of the Joseph story and the 5 brothers of the Macabee story

Shechem – Some of the Brothers Killed, Other Brothers Looted (Parshas VaYishlach)

Parshas VaYishlach: The challenges of Jewish survival in hostile environments

Parshas Toldos: The Palestinian (Plishti) Peace Proposal

Parshas Chayei Sarah: Oy shidduchim, shidduchim

Parshas VaYera: The הַשְׁגָּחָה פְּרָטִית in the sequence of events in the Abraham story

Parshas Lech Lecha: The conquest of Semitic Israel by Hamitic invaders

Parshas Lech Lecha: Abraham and Shem

Haftorah Parsha Noach: The Abandoned Wife Discovers She is not abandoned after all

The Story of Nimrod- Who was he? (Parshas Noach)

Parshas V’Zos HaBrachah: G-d offers the Torah to the other nations but they turn down the offer

Where is the Garden of Eden? (Parshas Bereishis)

Parshas Ha’azinu: The speech of Moshe to the elites (having given up on the masses)

Parshas Nitzavim-VaYelech: Above all, Moshe fears the hypocrites in his audience

Haftarah Parshas Ki Savo – Isaiah paints the Jewish Utopia

Parshas Ki Savo: The Terrible Tochecha – Why is Devarim’s worse than VaYikra’s?

Parshas Ki Seitzei: Amalek in Our Parsha and the Attack on October 7

Parshas Shoftim: The False Prophet in Jewish History

Haftorah Parshas Re’eh – The glorious house with the diamond chandeliers

Parshas Re’eh: “V’Yishavtem Betach-” Secure Internally? Or Externally?

Parshas Eikev: The 3 Great Dangers